Wetterspitzen

The Wetterspitzen are three of the rocky peaks on a mountain ridge in the Wetterstein mountains in the central part of the Eastern Alps in Germany. They lie two kilometres, as the crow flies, southwest of Germany's highest peak, the Zugspitze, on the border between the Austrian province of Tyrol and the German state of Bavaria. The Wetterspitzen form the southwest perimeter of the Zugspitze ledge (Zugspitzplatt); below and to the east is the ski region on the Schneeferner with its research station, the Schneefernerhaus.

The three peaks are the:
 * Northern Wetterspitze (Nördliche Wetterspitze) - 2746 m high;
 * Southern or Middle Wetterspitze (Südliche (Mittlere) Wetterspitze) - 2750 m high;
 * Eastern Wetterspitze (Östliche Wetterspitze) - 2668 m high.

Base
A possible base for climbing the Wetterspitzen is the SonnAlpin restaurant (2600 m) on the Zugspitze Ledge, the terminal station of the Bavarian Zugspitze Rack Railway.

Easiest routes
From the Zugspitze ledge (Zugspitzplatt): In addition there are various climbing routes up to UIAA grade V, starting from west of Ehrwald.
 * an easy climb, according to the literature, (UIAA grade II) in half an hour to the Northern Wetterspitze.
 * in two hours (UIAA II) to the Middle Wetterspitze,
 * in half an hour with any difficult sections (UIAA I) to the Eastern Wetterspitze

Sources and maps

 * Stefan Beulke: AVF Wetterstein, Rother Verlag München (1996), ISBN 3-7633-1119-X
 * Alpenvereinskarte 1:25.000, Blatt 4/2, Wetterstein- und Mieminger Gebirge